My husband, our three boys, and I had been hiking the Santa Elena Canyon Trail at Big Bend National ... baby wipes in hand, trying our best to clean up the three boys sitting on the truck ...

“It’s a geological cathedral,” Gandy says of this stretch of the trail, between 1,000-foot cliff walls. We agree this section, about three miles upstream of the mouth of Santa Elena ...

When I visited Big Bend’s Santa Elena Canyon in 2020 ... I couldn’t create a list of the best easy national-park hikes without including something from Carlsbad Caverns, one of the most ...